Towns Quotes - Page 4

• New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

  Johnny Carson

  Funny, Time, New York

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• I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.

  Fidel Castro

  Airports, Dinner, Way

  "Giuliani? He Wouldn't Get Castro's Vote". Interview with Lizette Alvarez, www.nytimes.com. October 26, 1995.

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• I'm just the worst little Buddhist in town.

  Cher

  Buddhist, Littles, Worst

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• It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports.

  Kenny Chesney

  Sports, School, Church

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• My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to own land. But, I was worried about my history being caked with that southern clay, and I subscribed to a different kind of teaching and learning in my bones and in my spirit.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Teaching, Land, Daddy

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• I’m from a small town so, like, everyone’s married with children or about to have children. So it’s a little hard when you go home and people are like - and that’s why people think I’m gay - because they’re like ‘Why aren’t you married?’ And I’m like, ‘it doesn’t happen for everyone right off the bat.’

  Kelly Clarkson

  Children, Home, Gay

  "Kelly Clarkson Denies Lesbian Rumors On ‘The View,’ Reveals Why People Think She’s Gay". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2011.

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• I love San Francisco so much. I call it the Emerald City and have been coming here since 1992. I have a few old friends that live here, and my aunt and uncle live in Oakland. I think it's a magical city - it's big, sexy and very 'cosmo' with a small-town feel.

  Andy Cohen

  Sexy, Uncles, Aunt

  "Bravo's Andy Cohen shares his story in the Castro". Interview with Sarah Adler, www.sfgate.com. May 27, 2012.

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• In high school I spent most of my time in jeans and T-shirts or Juicy sweats. We're such a laid-back town. I mean, people wore bikinis under their clothes half the time, so you didn't really get dressed up to go to school.

  Lauren Conrad

  School, Mean, Jeans

  "Lauren Conrad" by Dan Today, www.seventeen.com. September 29, 2007.

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• God made the country, and man made the town.

  William Cowper

  God, Country, Men

  The Task bk. 1 "The Sofa" l. 749 (1785) See Abraham Cowley 2

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• There are 10,000 local governments in the state of New York. Ten thousand! Town, village, lighting district, water district, sewer district, a special district to count the other districts in case you missed a district.

  Andrew Cuomo

  New York, Government, Water

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• I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town.

  John Cusack

  Thinking, Old Friends, Lots Of Friends

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I come from this really small town near Nashville, Tennessee, where everything was la-di-da and normal.

  Miley Cyrus

  Nashville, Tennessee, Normal

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• My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.

  Roald Dahl

  Father, Hands, Elbows

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• Art can help a town by attracting a certain Bohemian population that adds life to the bars, character to the streets and a buzz to the name. Employers may then follow. But art can't do much if every town does it. There aren't enough Bohemians.

  Evan Davis

  Art, Character, Names

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• I do like men and I had, you know, a guy in high school that I wanted to marry desperately. He's the mayor of some small town in Texas. I could be the mayor's wife right now.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  School, Men, Texas

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• Even if you didn't come from another country, the idea of how do you make a home somewhere new is common to anyone who's either going to college, shifting towns.

  Junot Diaz

  Country, Home, College

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• Olympia was a town crawling with music. I was new to the whole punk scene. The culture shock continued; Olympia had bagels! We didn't have bagels in Arkansas. You could order vegetarian food all over town! It was so crazy to me - a place with so many vegetarians, the restaurants made special dishes for them?

  Beth Ditto

  Crazy, Order, Special

  Beth Ditto (2012). “Coal to Diamonds”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• I loved the Cure and Bauhaus and the Smiths. The people in my town weren't privy to that kind of music and I got abused. I discovered the microphone to get out some of that angst.

  Fred Durst

  People, Kind, Cures

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• No, I did night clubs right here in Los Angeles. My partner, Phil Erickson, put me in the business, a guy from my home town, a dear friend who we just lost a couple of months ago.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Couple, Home, Night

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• I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.

  Steve Earle

  Neighbor, Moved, Known

  Twitter post from Jun 28, 2012

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• San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.

  Steve Earle

  Growing Up, Military, Air

  "“Making Art in America is a Political Statement in Itself”: Grammy Award-winning Singer Steve Earle on Music, Writing and Acting". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. May 13, 2011.

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• It's the same the world over. A Hollywood production comes to town, and the locals all turn movie crazy.

  Roger Ebert

  Crazy, Hollywood, World

  Roger Ebert (2017). “Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert: Second Edition”, p.480, University of Chicago Press

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• Growing up, I missed the whole 'Three Stooges' thing. Either they weren't on the station in my hometown, or we hadn't bought a TV set yet, or they came to town too late for me. I'm pretty sure that at the right age, I would have loved them.

  Roger Ebert

  Growing Up, Age, Three

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• My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Grandfather, Important

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• The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow.

  Black Elk

  Country, Fall, Moon

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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